> Dan Minette schreef: > > > With the relatively low population in Australia, I bet you have > even more of > > them. > > >
Sonja: > But what is the use of enforcing a speed limit on those roads I > wonder. Usually > after every crossing the enforced speed limit has to be repeated. > Imagine all > those signs standing in the middle of nowere... pbbbrt. Hell of a job > periodically cleaning them. ;o) > > Generally you get a speed limit sign when you leave the town (100) and that's the last you see until you get to the next town, which can be 60 km or more away. Occasionally every ten or twenty (or 100) kilometres you might get a pair of speed signs sitting in the middle of nowhere, reminding you of the 100 km/h limit. As for cleaning, the shotgun pellets fired at any lonesome traffic sign seem to take car of that. Even here in Victoria, the most densely populated Australian State - it's only the size of the whole UK, after all, with a population of about 4.5 million - you can have highways where you travel 40 km between towns. Actually, the main road from Melbourne to Sydney is essentially all a freeway, from Melbourne's outskirts to the NSW border (about 250km) and it is all posted at a limit of 100 km/h. Very frustrating, when it is possibly of Autobahn quality and you have to restrict yourself to such a speed. Especially when you get mini convoys of semi-trailers and B-doubles all going nose to tail at about 110/120 km/h, rain hail or shine. Brett
